Tell your friends about this item:
The Power of Projections: How Maps Reflect Global Politics and History
Arthur Jay Klinghoffer
The Power of Projections: How Maps Reflect Global Politics and History
Arthur Jay Klinghoffer
Examines the world perceptions of various civilizations and the ways in which maps have been formulated to serve the agenda of cartographers and their patrons. This book also analyses the decline of sovereignty, the spread of globalisation, the reassertion of ethnic identity, and how these trends affect contemporary mapmaking.
208 pages, 8 maps
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | April 30, 2006 |
ISBN13 | 9780275991357 |
Publishers | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
Pages | 208 |
Dimensions | 241 × 164 × 22 mm · 474 g |